Nobel to OPCW on Twitter: Where are you guys?

Oct. 11, 2013
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The prize committee's first tweet to OPCW. / Twitter

by Mary Nahorniak, USA TODAY

by Mary Nahorniak, USA TODAY

When the Nobel Peace Prize committee couldn't reach the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons by phone, it turned to a newer means of communication: Twitter.

The committee tweeted twice on Friday morning, first with a message to OPCW to contact its office and then with a general that effectively said, "Are you out there?"

Twitter users found the interaction amusing and exasperating.

--@radhikajones: "Imagining current convo between @Nobelprize_org and @OPCW: Hey, follow me back so I can DM you."

--@misswilson "Life in 2013, everybody"

--M_C_Klein "Is this the way things are done now?"

--@DrDSchwartz "Who ordered a @dominos Pizza?"

Difficulty reaching winners by phone has been a pattern throughout this year's awarding of the Nobel prizes, including a delay reaching literature winner Alice Munro, a Canadian, as well as physics prize winner Peter Higgs, thought to be somewhere in Scotland.